Industry news in brief
This month’s industry round-up features Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care winning a national award and Leeds employing a Finnish company for e-rostering.
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The CIO interview: Lisa Emery, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Lisa Emery, CIO at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, talks to Digital Health News about the importance of resilience and why she hates jam doughnuts.
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West Herts signs five year deal with CGI
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a five year contract with CGI worth approximately £25.5m to replace its “aging” infrastructure.
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Jr doctor creates ward problems app
A junior doctor at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust has created an app to flag up problems and inefficiencies on the wards.
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West Herts looks to boost infrastructure
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust has gone out to tender for an infrastructure services contract worth 30m-£50m.
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ISoft wins double kiosk deal
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust and North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust have signed a contract for iSoft’s patient check-in kiosks in a deal worth £275,000.
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West Herts signs portal deal with Carefx
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a deal with Carefx for its Fusionfx suite, to provide clinicians with an aggregate view of patient information through a single portal. Healthcare professionals at the trust’s three hospitals – Watford General, St Alban’s City and Hemel Hempstead – will have streamlined access to various applications. These will […]
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World wide EMIS Web
EMIS is not backward about coming forward with its next generation system, EMIS Web. Fiona Barr reports.
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PCTs start transferring patient records by CD
Practices from two primary care trusts in Hertfordshire are about to start transferring patients records on CD, ahead of the arrival of the national GP2GP record transfer project. St Albans & Harpenden and Hertsmere PCTs have set up a system that allows practices to send and receive CD-ROMs holding the entire patient record including attachments. […]
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